Groove-oriented mix of traditional African and Irish sounds on display atsummer festivals, including New York City's Central Park SummerStage

With critics hailing their fourth album 'Seed' (Real World Records) as amajor step forward in the group's ongoing evolution, the Afro Celts' willlaunch a U.S. summer tour at the Santa Monica Pier on July 10. Afro Celtswill perform their signature combination of traditional Irish music fusedwith African instruments, international rhythms and a patchwork of texturedelectronics, at a number of summer festivals across the country this year,including a show at NYC's Central Park SummerStage.

According to Global Rhythm's Marty Lipp, "The group's sprawling songs buildup momentum as they move through an array of soundscapes... Anyone with anopen mind could easily get carried away by the kaleidoscopic tapestry ofsounds."